Literatura, prensa y divulgación científica: Rubén Darío en Buenos Aires
The circulation of Rubén Darío's texts in Latin American press has been regarded as emblematic of the emergence processes of the professional writer and the gradual autonomization of literature. However, only a portion of that production was later incorporated into books published by the author...
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Centro Interdisciplinario de Literatura Hispanoamericana (CILHA)
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/cilha/article/view/7323 |
| Sumario: | The circulation of Rubén Darío's texts in Latin American press has been regarded as emblematic of the emergence processes of the professional writer and the gradual autonomization of literature. However, only a portion of that production was later incorporated into books published by the author or in subsequent posthumous compilations. The conception of this selection as his 'literary work' implies, in its aesthetic hierarchization, the removal of the texts from their original support and, above all, the erasure of the discursive dialogue that these texts engaged with others, present in the same or similar media.
In this work, I am interested in analyzing how some fantastic stories by Rubén Darío, written and/or published in Buenos Aires in the last decade of the 19th century, were strongly linked to journalistic information and, specifically, the dissemination of scientific, pseudoscientific, and technical novelties circulating in newspapers and magazines. Rubén Darío maintained a close connection with the emergence of these novelties and skillfully filtered them into his literature as material for narrative fiction. He also seemed to capture, with productive sensitivity, the intersection of these scientific novelties with the occultism and traditional religiosity.
The review of these stories in the context of their original publication will also allow the study, through a particular case, of a larger process: the development of the short story genre in Argentina, a form that modernized and consolidated in a constant interaction between, on the one hand, literary tradition, and on the other hand, the conditions that the press exerted on that narrative form. |
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